Neugent v. Neugent

WALKER, Justice.

Appellant, William Floyd Neugent, alleging that appellee, Billie Marie Neugent, was his wife, sued appellee for divorce and for custody of their only child. The appellant’s parents intervened and prayed custody of the child if the appellant and appellee were divorced. For convenience, we shall refer to appellant and appellee as husband and wife, respectively. The only pleading of the wife in the transcript is styled a plea in abatement and it purports to be in reply both to the petition and to the intervention. In this plea the wife alleged that in a prior suit by her against…